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Webinar: Achieve Software Delivery Speed and Security With Microservices and Containers
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Red Hat Drives DevOps Adoption and Application Scalability with Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
RALEIGH, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3, bringing new developer features and deployment scalability, on a secure enterprise container platform, to improve application delivery across the hybrid cloud. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform supports organizations as they build and maintain both cloud-native and traditional applications, providing a solution they can use across the application lifecycle, from development to production.
Powered by open industry standards and built on the trusted foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 offers a single platform delivering Linux container and container orchestration innovation, along with application development and deployment capabilities, in a hardened, enterprise-ready product. Red Hat is a leading contributor to both the Docker and Kubernetes projects and the latest version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides an enterprise version of Kubernetes 1.3 and the Docker container runtime, built on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, helping customers enjoy the benefits of rapid innovation while retaining the stability, reliability and security of an enterprise platform.
New features in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 include:
Enhancements to developer productivity and agility
In the modern IT organization, developers need to deliver better applications and application updates, faster. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform helps address this need by bringing new automation capabilities to the application development lifecycle, via new continuous delivery pipelines based on the Jenkins Pipeline project and an aggregated developer dashboard that shows a unified view of application pipelines. Additional new features provide improved A/B testing automation through granular control of application routing configurations through OpenShift’s integrated routing and software-defined networking capabilities.
Deployments at cloud-scale
As the move to the cloud demands more scalability and flexibility in computing platforms, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 helps deliver greatly improved platform scalability, a substantial need for organizations operating mission-critical applications at scale, supporting up to 1,000 nodes per computing cluster. This enables larger scale deployments to support not only new applications but also existing legacy applications in hybrid cloud environments, helping enterprises retain existing application investments without sacrificing innovation. Additionally, the inherent Kubernetes capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform can now proactively monitor for and prevent against resource starvation and unplanned downtime.
Enterprise-grade security
Security is one of the key concerns for organizations adopting Linux Containers technology. OpenShift provides a secure, enterprise-ready container platform, which includes support that extends from the Linux operating system, to the container platform, and to integrated application services. OpenShift includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the most trusted and secure enterprise Linux platform, and inherits all of its security features and ongoing updates. Security features extend to the Docker container runtime, which is integrated with Security Enhanced Linux for additional multi-tenant security, and to OpenShift’s integrated container registry, which allows administrators to manage their Docker-formatted container images and allows them to control access and image updates. Additional registry enhancements have been added to OpenShift Container Platform 3.3, spanning users, teams and their projects, including the ability to view image details and manage access to images. OpenShift also provides integrated user authorization and roles-based access controls for Kubernetes that integrate with enterprise LDAP-systems, as well as integrated security policies for container execution, so administrators can control user access, permissions, quotas and access to pull and run container images all in one place.
Red Hat’s expanded container portfolio spans private and fully managed public cloud offerings, supporting the different aspects of the application development process in one solution that can span multiple infrastructures and offer containers-as-a-service. These infrastructure environments include Red Hat OpenShift Container Local, included in the Red Hat Container Developer Kit, Red Hat OpenShift Container Lab, OpenShift Online and OpenShift Dedicated. Red Hat’s portfolio of container-optimized solutions includes storage, application services and management offerings, in addition to free development tools.
Availability
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 will be available for customer download on Sept. 27, 2016. The OpenShift Online and OpenShift Dedicated platforms are scheduled for update shortly following the availability of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3.
Red Hat Open Innovation Labs: Jump-starting innovation through containers and DevOps
In April 2016, Red Hat launched Red Hat Open Innovation Labs as a consulting service that helps companies integrate people, methodology, and technology to solve business challenges in an accelerated fashion. In an Open Innovation Labs engagement, customers work collaboratively in a residency-oriented environment, using OpenShift Container Platform as a foundation for applying lean and agile principles to bridge traditional and contemporary application development. Customers can participate in an Open Innovation Labs residency on their own site or at a Red Hat site.
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Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform forms the cornerstone of one of the industry’s broadest, most comprehensive set of enterprise-grade container solutions. The latest updates to the platform enable customers to more fully make use of their container technology investments and better embrace a DevOps methodology. This gives developers their needed automation tools and helps operations teams to better scale to meet customer demand, both with the aim of bringing better applications to market more quickly.”
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Webinar: Learn Why We Must Shift APM Left in the DevOps Lifecycle
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CA Technologies to Acquire BlazeMeter to Drive Speed and Quality of Application Testing Practices
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire BlazeMeter, a leader in open source-based continuous application performance testing. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close by year end.
The acquisition of privately-held BlazeMeter will enable CA Technologies to extend its DevOps portfolio. BlazeMeter will seamlessly integrate with CA’s continuous delivery solutions to further improve testing efficiency and accelerate the deployment of applications.
“BlazeMeter has redefined performance testing with its simplicity, fast-deployment SaaS model, and rapid time-to-value,” said Ayman Sayed, president and chief product officer, CA Technologies. “The acquisition will reinforce our leadership position in continuous testing, and our efforts to democratize performance testing as organizations accelerate their DevOps journey to drive speed and quality in the delivery of new software updates and innovations.”
As development teams move to Agile and continuous delivery practices to improve time-to-market of applications, enterprises are struggling to keep up. Testing speed is the major bottleneck in getting applications released faster. With BlazeMeter’s solution, developers and performance engineers can test earlier and often in the application lifecycle to improve their test coverage and avoid encountering performance problems too close to production.
“Developers and performance engineers want to achieve superior test coverage by using open source tools and tools that can integrate well into the developer ecosystem,” said Alon Girmonsky, founder and CEO, BlazeMeter. “Joining forces with CA Technologies will enable BlazeMeter to continue developing our technology while enjoying the vast resources of CA Technologies to better serve our customers.”
BlazeMeter’s commercial, self-service continuous application performance testing solution is fully compatible with Apache JMeter™ as well as other open source software tools like Selenium, Gatling and Locust.
Founded in 2011, BlazeMeter has offices in Tel Aviv, Israel and Palo Alto, Calif.
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels transformation for companies and enables them to seize the opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart of every business in every industry. From planning, to development, to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe environments. Learn more at www.ca.com.
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Sonatype Achieves Record Revenue and Customer Growth in First Half of 2016
FULTON, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sonatype, the leader in software supply chain automation, today announced continued dramatic growth across every aspect of its Nexus software business. Comparing H1 2015 to H1 2016, Sonatype’s accomplishments include:
.@Sonatype achieves record revenue and customer growth in first half of 2016
- 61% revenue growth
- 79% total bookings growth
- 113% new bookings growth
- 125% net dollar retention rate
By every metric, these results point to Sonatype’s emergence as the de facto standard for automating modern software supply chains and a prerequisite for development organizations committed to practicing continuous delivery and DevOps. The company also achieved a best in class Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 52 — a leading benchmark that measures customer satisfaction and loyalty across industries.
During the H1 2016, the company authored the highly popular 2016 State of the Software Supply Chain Report, surpassed 100,000 active installations of its Nexus Repository Manager, and expanded its global footprint with new offices in London and Sydney. The company also closed a $30 million financing led by Goldman Sachs’ Principal Strategic Investments Group, with participation from all existing investors, including NEA and Accel, both of which were recently ranked in the top five among venture firms by CB Insights.
Faced with a seemingly infinite supply of open source and third-party components, Sonatype’s Nexus customers are embracing DevOps-native technologies to automatically distinguish good parts from bad while orchestrating the flow of quality through the entire software supply chain. The company’s SaaS offerings now examine millions of components in 70,000 repositories and tens of thousands of applications each business day.
“The volume, variety, and velocity of componentized parts flowing through software development organizations is staggering,” said Wayne Jackson, CEO of Sonatype. “Enterprises using waterfall-native tools simply cannot move fast enough to govern quality and security pertaining to components. Customers are turning to us because we know more about software components than anyone else and our DevOps-native Nexus platform infuses this intelligence into every aspect of the modern software supply chain.”
“The increasingly strategic nature of software is driving a transformative shift from ‘software-written-by-hand’ to ‘software as a manufacturing process’,” said Harry Weller, General Partner at NEA. “Sonatype is ideally positioned to capitalize on this truly massive market opportunity and we’re excited to support the company’s continued rapid growth moving forward.”
About Sonatype
Last year developers requested 31 billion components from the Central Repository to manufacture the software applications that run the world. Additionally, with more than 100,000 installations, companies around the globe use Sonatype’s Nexus solutions to manage reusable components and improve the quality, speed and security of their software supply chains. Sonatype is privately held with investments from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Accel Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Bay Partners and Goldman Sachs. For more information, visit: www.sonatype.com.
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Webinar: Unifying your Application Release and Configuration Automation
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Sonatype Announces Nexus Repository Pro with High Availability and Software Component Analysis Built-in
DevOps native repository manager offers easy upgrade for installed base
Fulton, MD. – September 14, 2016 – Sonatype, the leader in software supply chain automation, today introduced the latest version of Nexus Repository Pro. The 3.2 version of Nexus Repository Pro will include built-in support for active-active high availability configurations and enhanced security and license analysis for open source components. Sonatype has also expanded Nexus Repository’s free, universal component support to include PyPI and RubyGems.
The new functionalities of Nexus Repository Pro will be demonstrated at Jenkins World (Sept 13 – 15) and JavaOne (Sept 18 – 22). The product is currently being tested in private beta and will be commercially available in Q4 2016.
With over 100,000 active installations, Sonatype’s Nexus Repository Pro now offers expanded capabilities including:
- High-availability which is uniquely affordable, rapidly configured, and easily managed
- Universal support for all popular component formats
- Precise component intelligence
“We are excited to offer high-availability with the latest version of our Nexus Repository Pro to ensure that companies can achieve their continuous delivery goals,” said Wayne Jackson, CEO, Sonatype. “Our customers will be able to seamlessly integrate high-availability into their existing production environments with this sophisticated, yet cost-effective offering that minimizes downtime and improves reliability. When coupled with our precise component intelligence and ever-expanding component support, Nexus Repository Pro makes building and releasing the best software easy.”
Meeting continuous delivery needs through high availability
Active-active high availability is a requirement for organizations seeking 99.999% uptime across their Continuous Delivery and DevOps toolchains. The latest version of Nexus Repository Pro supports the active-active high availability ensuring that if one server goes down, the other will continue running without interruption. The high availability feature is built into Nexus Repository Pro 3.2 and is remarkably easy to configure. Pricing starts at $1200 per year.
Expanding component support to PyPI and RubyGems
Nexus Repository is the only repository manager to offer free support for the world’s most popular component-based development languages including Java, npm, Bower, NuGet, and Docker, and now PyPI and RubyGems.
Providing precise component intelligence
Everyday, Nexus Repository customers evaluate the quality and security of millions of open source and third-party components across 70,000 repositories using Repository Health Check (RHC). RHC provides intelligence about the components, including license types, known security vulnerabilities, and other data such as relative usage popularity and age. This feature of Nexus Repository 2.x is now being made freely available to Nexus Repository 3.2 users.
Upgrading Nexus Repository 2.x to 3.x
Starting with the release of Nexus Repository 3.1, Sonatype has included a seamless upgrade path for customers who are currently using Nexus Repository 2.14. Built-in upgrade tooling and documentation provide the current installed base an easy way to upgrade to take advantage of the latest features, including support for private Docker registries, high-availability, repository health check and universal component support.
Additional Resources
- Download Nexus Repository
- Learn more about high availability in Nexus Repository Pro
- Learn more about upgrading to Nexus Repository Pro
- Learn how to turn on the Repository Health Check feature
- Read the 2016 State of the Software Supply Chain Report
- Follow Sonatype on Twitter: @sonatype.
About Sonatype
Last year developers requested 31 billion components from the Central Repository to manufacture the software applications that run the world. Additionally, with more than 100,000 installations, companies around the globe use Sonatype’s Nexus solutions to manage reusable components and improve the quality, speed and security of their software supply chains. Sonatype is privately held with investments from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Accel Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Bay Partners and Goldman Sachs. For more information, visit: www.sonatype.com
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Packet Raises $9.4 Million Series A Led by SoftBank
New York – September 14, 2016 – Packet, the leading bare metal cloud for developers, today announced it has closed a $9.4 million Series A funding round led by SoftBank Corp. (“SoftBank”). In addition to the capital round, the companies have formed a strategic partnership to bring Packet’s bare metal server automation technology and public cloud services to Japan.
“As one of the most forward-looking investors in the world, SoftBank is a natural partner for our vision of automating fundamental infrastructure, no matter where it is,” said Zachary Smith, Packet’s CEO. “In a market dominated by giants, we feel that a bold partner comfortable with challenging the status quo is exactly what we need to aggressively expand our current momentum in the global cloud marketplace and bring our infrastructure automation expertise to private datacenters.”
Packet’s proprietary technology automates physical servers and networks without the use of virtualization or multi-tenancy to provide on-demand compute and connectivity. With existing public cloud datacenters in New York, Silicon Valley and Amsterdam, a strong entrance into Asia’s fast-growing cloud market and the Japanese enterprise market is a powerful step forward.“Packet’s team has built an incredible solution and has already captured the attention of a wide set of partners and clients in North America and Europe,” said Eric Gan, Executive Vice President, head of Business Development at SoftBank Corp. “We look forward to working together to extend their reach in Asia.”
With the adoption of container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, demand for single tenant automated infrastructure is growing exponentially. Since launching in August 2015, Packet has seen strong growth among developers, SaaS platforms and large enterprises. The company has attracted thousands of users and a broad range of use cases, from on-demand private clouds to cloud native platforms built using Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and more. DH Capital served as exclusive financial advisor to Packet on the transaction.About Packet
Founded in 2014, Packet brings public cloud style automation to the internet’s physical hardware and network layers with no vendor lock in. Customers can either build on Packet’s public cloud service or leverage advanced automation software to enable their own private compute infrastructure. The company is headquartered in New York City and maintains an advanced global IP network between its data center locations in New York Metro (Parsippany, NJ), Sunnyvale (CA) and Amsterdam (NL). Packet is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and supports many open source projects, including Memcached.org, which uses Packet to perform automatic performance and burn-in testing of new features.
About SoftBank Corp.
SoftBank Corp., a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp. (TOKYO: 9984), provides mobile communication, fixed-line communication and Internet connection services to customers in Japan. Leveraging synergies with other companies in the SoftBank Group, SoftBank Corp. aims to transform lifestyles through ICT and expand into other business areas including IoT, robotics and energy. To learn more, please visit www.softbank.jp/en/corp/group/sbm/
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ControlUp Announces Launch of ControlUp 6.0
Sunnyvale, Calif. – September 12, 2016 – ControlUp, the leading provider performance management tools to identify, troubleshoot and remediate problems in VI and VDI infrastructures, today announced the release of ControlUp 6.0, the latest version of the company’s flagship offering, ControlUp Real-time. For the first time, ControlUp will support Microsoft Hyper-V and it now provides deeper support for XenDesktop Sites.
ControlUp 6 provides unsurpassed visibility into the actual end user experience based on their logon duration, their application load time, as well as their latency and bandwidth usage. The platform also offers several new historical reports and enhanced others to include the new metrics that are being collected, while they continue to lead the industry based on their “live reports” drill-down capability.
“ControlUp Real-time has been the go-to tool for system administrators in the know for years,” explained Asaf Ganot, Founder and CEO of ControlUp. “It far surpasses other monitoring tools because with ControlUp Real-time, the administrator can identify and fix a problem that may exist on dozens or hundreds of computers with a single keystroke. We are delighted to welcome Hyper-V shops as well as providing even deeper support for
Citrix XenDesktop shops. Now both can benefit from the vibrant community of ControlUp users and system administration experts who share wisdom and contributed scripts – extending the effectiveness of each participating IT department.”
Hyper-V has been added to the list of supported hypervisors, which previously included ESXi and XenServer. As VMs are moved by System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), they continue to be monitored and managed from a single pane of glass that spans the datacenter to the Azure Cloud to optimize operation across the hybrid cloud.
ControlUp 6.0 adds deeper support for Citrix XenDesktop environments, a market segment in which ControlUp dominates today, adding real time metrics for brokers, deliver groups, desktops and sessions to provide even more insight into the XenDesktop end user’s experience and the bottlenecks within the shared XenDesktop computing infrastructure.
About ControlUp:
ControlUp is the leading provider of powerful, yet easy to use, real-time monitoring analysis and control tools that help global organizations and SMBs get the most from their VI and VDI infrastructures. Used by over 500 companies worldwide, ControlUp ensures that SLAs are consistently met and end users get the most from their desktops, virtual desktop and virtual applications. ControlUp is headquartered in Silicon Valley with R&D in Israel, and is backed by Jerusalem Venture Partners. For more information, visit us at www.controlup.com.
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KMS Technology Releases Katalon Studio, Free Intelligent Test Automation Toolset
ATLANTA, GA – September 12, 2016 — IT services provider KMS Technology today announced the release of Katalon Studio, a powerful automation toolset for web and mobile app testing. Katalon Studio revolutionizes the way software testers use Selenium and Appium with a complete test automation framework that allows testers to quickly setup, create, run, report, and maintain their automated tests. Katalon Studio is available to testers at no cost, with a free download available on www.katalon.com.
Katalon benefits include:
- Simple Deployment – a single installation package contains everything needed to begin
- Quick Start Up – built-in templates and clear tutorials allow users to quickly build and run automation test scripts
- Flexible Modes – use recording and keywords to build automation tests if you’re a tester with less experience, or use a full IDE to build advanced scripts for more experienced users.
Katalon also provides an advanced recording utility and Object Spy tool that enables users to identify page elements and generate scripts automatically, allowing users to transform manual steps into automated steps in less time.
“We created Katalon as an answer to our own clients’ struggles with test automation. We heard stories of teams with little or no automation experience clicking around, endlessly searching for how to get set up, or experienced automation teams frustrated with lack of integration among their frameworks,” said Adam Satterfield, VP of Testing at KMS Technology. “KMS developed Katalon Studio over the past 3 years as an internal test automation framework for our projects and clients and now is making it available to the testing community. Katalon is a game-changer for testing teams by being flexible, customizable, and powerful.”
“The best part of Katalon is that it is simple to setup, but it’s powerful enough to be your one-stop shop for automation. At KMS Technology, we’re always listening to our customers and trying to address their pain points by creating new technology that fills a void in the marketplace. We did that with QASymphony and the qTest platform. Katalon is our latest innovation and we’re excited to offer automation teams an easier, faster way to test,” said Vu Lam, CEO of KMS Technology.
In addition to the free version, KMS also offers Katalon Studio for businesses that require additional support, including customized pricing for setup services and prioritized tech support. For more information on Katalon Studio, please visit www.katalon.com or email info@katalon.com.
About KMS Technology
Founded in 2009, KMS Technology provides IT services across the software development lifecycle through partnerships with clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. KMS was founded by a team of information technology veterans in the United States and Vietnam with a vision of building an agile, innovative and efficient organization that increases our clients’ shareholder value. KMS services include research and development, product innovation and management, application management, testing, support, professional services, and staff augmentation. KMS is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.